I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.